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Radio 3,15 Dec 2017,14 mins

SeriesNothing Is Real - Pop's Struggle with Authenticity

The rock'n'roll funeral

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Writer David Hepworth on pop music's struggles with authenticity. 5/5. Recently David was asked to programme the music for the wake after the funeral of a colleague. Now he wonders whether, despite the public demand for Robbie Williams' Angels and Frank Sinatra's My Way, pop music really has any place in the great ceremonies of life and death. A Trevor Dann's Company production for BBC Radio 3.

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